Barenaked Ladies on longevity, Geddy Lee, and why Canadians are funny By Bill DeMain The Barenaked Ladies are back with a new album – and the frontman’s secret project with Geddy Lee “that I can’t talk about”
Six things you need to know about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real By Bill DeMain Country-rockers Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real on close encounters with marine life, backing Neil Young and continuing a family tradition
The story behind American Pie by Don McLean By Bill DeMain Half a century on, Don McLean's folk-rock anthem about the souring of the American Dream continues to confound and inspire
The Death of Bobby Fuller: an untimely tragedy and an unsolved mystery By Bill DeMain The Bobby Fuller Four looked set for greatness after I Fought The Law hit the US Top 10, but within six months Fuller was dead
Eric Church interview: alpha males and soccer moms, NASCAR and AC/DC By Bill DeMain Eric Church, country-rock superstar, returns with a triple album, optimism for future gigs, and thoughts on *that* controversial interview
Bella Donna: How Stevie Nicks escaped chaos and proved a point By Bill DeMain Forty years ago, Stevie Nicks stepped out from the chaos and control of Fleetwood Mac with a hit-laden debut solo album that showed she could fly just as high on her own
Nancy Wilson interview: the Heart vortex and the lost Eddie Van Halen song By Bill DeMain Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson talks guitars, the new solo album You And Me, and her surprise choice for the most underrated guitarist of all time
11 facts you might not know about the Sgt. Pepper cover artwork By Bill DeMain Putting Sgt. Pepper's iconic album's iconic artwork under the microscope to discover the weird, the wonderful, and what Sonny Liston thought of Ringo's drumming
How Alan Parsons took the Three Laws of Robotics and made a sci-fi masterpiece By Bill DeMain In the year of Star Wars, Pink Floyd’s former engineer Alan Parsons was creating his own barmy sci-fi masterpiece, I Robot
David Bowie's Changes: the story behind the song By Bill DeMain How a young David Bowie’s artistic manifesto was captured in the three and a half perfect minutes of Changes
Jimi Hendrix's Dolly Dagger: the story behind the song By Bill DeMain How London’s famous clock tower and a Jimi Hendrix groupie inspired his last great song, Dolly Dagger
David Bowie: how Hunky Dory was made By Bill DeMain David Bowie had everything to prove, but backed by his greatest band and produced by the engineer for The Beatles, he made his first classic album, Hunky Dory
The story behind Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel By Bill DeMain Inspired by a single line from a gospel song, Paul Simon's classic Bridge Over Troubled Water has been covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to Aretha Franklin
How David Bowie returned to orbit and made Scary Monsters By Bill DeMain After the minimalism of his ‘Berlin trilogy’, David Bowie went all out for a kitchen-sink art-rock album on Scary Monsters
The story behind Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty's Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around By Bill DeMain How a song from Tom Petty’s reject pile unwittingly became a Petty/Nicks duet, and the massive hit single that launched the Fleetwood Mac icon’s solo career
The Allman Brothers Band: a guide to their best albums By Bill DeMain The Allman Brothers Band spent the best part of 50 years ‘hittin’ the note’, with just a few clunkers. Here are some of the sweet spots of their catalogue
How Joni Mitchell made Ladies Of The Canyon and galvanised the singer-songwriter movement By Bill DeMain Released 50 years ago, Ladies Of The Canyon marked the moment when Joni Mitchell went from folk princess to pop star
The radical rebirth of Jimi Hendrix and his Band Of Gypsys By Bill DeMain In January 1970, Jimi Hendrix pulled the plug on stardom to chase a funkier, freer direction with his Band Of Gypsys. This is their story
How to buy the very best of Todd Rundgren By Bill DeMain Songwriter, producer, singer, multi-instrumentalist… Todd Rundgren's is a diverse and distinguished catalogue from a restless and progressive artist
Little Girl Lost: How Janis Joplin got dem ol' kozmic blues again By Bill DeMain Janis Joplin’s transition from band member to solo diva (including her only solo album released in her lifetime) was fraught with power plays, ego trips and excessive drug use
Les Paul: the man who invented modern music By Bill DeMain Visionary, guitar wizard and inspiration, Les Paul invented the electric guitar and drew the blueprint for contemporary music as we know it
Prince’s Purple Rain: The epic story of how it was made By Bill DeMain How reclusive genius Prince learned to play nice with others, how to rock and in the process made Purple Rain, his world-beating 6th album
The Rise Of Lenny Kravitz By Bill DeMain The record industry claimed he "wasn't black enough or white enough" to become famous - this is how the funk-rock superstar proved them wrong.
The Story Behind The Song: Space Oddity by David Bowie By Bill DeMain In a dry run for the sci-fi-tinged stardom he'd achieve in the early 70s, young folkie David Bowie wrote his 1969 alienation anthem of an astronaut lost in space
The story behind the song: Heroes by David Bowie By Bill DeMain Although David Bowie’s Berlin-period anthem Heroes was initially something of a commercial failure, it became his most life-changing single
